Tag Heilung
Every so often, one of the many albums I get sent to review presents me with a challenge. Sometimes it’s an expected challenge, like how do I categorise this particular example of genre roulette accurately enough to review it, and… Continue Reading →
Well, this is a difficult one. Maybe I’m having trouble rating the album because it’s neither metal nor dark nor extreme and thus different from the majority of the stuff we review. Or maybe the difficulties that I’m having stem… Continue Reading →
Magnificent, epic, bombastic, opulent, cinematic……I could go on but you get the idea. Jo Quail’s latest offering is stunning and even though her previous releases were well received, this is a whole other level. I’m sure most people are familiar… Continue Reading →
There are a few things that drew me to this release for review, firstly the band name, which I guess is pretty tacky and something you’d probably have expected to see back in the 80s or early 90s with satanic… Continue Reading →
Unless you are completely new to Nordic Folk, you will know that the genre’s best times are behind it. It reached its climax a few years ago and it stopped being nouvelle and wondrous before that. Today, even its best-known… Continue Reading →
In recent years there has been a proliferation of interest in Nordic Mythology and associated neofolk with names such as Wardruna, Heilung and Danheim now being well established in alternative music circles. Vévaki will undoubtedly be joining that list in… Continue Reading →
As I’ve mentioned previously, one of the nice things about this festival is that it is not just about the music, it is so much more. On the final day, I took the opportunity to explore the Midgard Vikingsenter a… Continue Reading →
Thanks to the Vikings show and its various copycats, the world has familiarized itself with certain aspects of Norse culture and history to a degree unseen before. The popularization of Viking-themed shows served as a big catalyst for selling everything… Continue Reading →
The key to understanding Heilung and their music is the tag the band have assigned to themselves – amplified history. Since their beginnings in 2015, the ritual collective, the latter being another self-coined label, have been aiming at bringing the… Continue Reading →
Genres are dumb. The idea that you need to be able to fit music into hyper specific categories is stupid and it ultimately makes the listening experience worse. While that is what I believe, it is also my excuse to… Continue Reading →
This sounded fascinating on paper and appeared to be an album that would transport me away from the living room to a different place and time entirely. That is just what was needed over an extended bank holiday when the… Continue Reading →
Urferd are a new project from Sweden brought to life by Daniel Beckman (Twilight Force, Ages). For the multi-instrumentalist, debut album Resan marks the beginning of a new musical path, going beyond the genres he has been active in so… Continue Reading →